Continuing Violence

During this week the Church is called to prayer for those persecuted for their faith. It is easy for us in America to gloss over the pain and suffering fellow Christians endure around the world. The Christian Persecution Blog has published a story from the Catholic World News.

Jakarta, Nov. 08 (AsiaNews) - New violence has flared in Indonesia, in the town where three girls from a Christian school were decapitated on October 29, the AsiaNews service reports.
Two more girls were shot in the head in the evening of November 8 in Poso, in central Sulawesi-- a province marred by months of bloodshed, as Muslims have clashed with Christians. The two girls are in critical condition in a local hospital.

It is time that we Christians make the rest of the country see the pain, suffering and turmoil our fellow brothers and sisters are facing. The main stream media will not.

Islam a nice peaceful religion?

Three Christian teenage girls were beheaded in an assault that marks an escalation of the violence against non-Muslims in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province. The three high school students were found with their heads severed early Saturday in the sectarian-divided town of Poso, said provincial police spokesman Rais Adam.
The girls were believed to have been murdered while they walked to school, Adam said Saturday.
He said two of the victims' heads were found near a police post while the third was discovered outside a Christian church in Poso.
Muslim extremists have been linked to bombings, shootings and other attacks targeting Christians in the Poso area over the last two years but these appear to be the first recent beheadings.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono strongly condemned the beheadings, a tactic used periodically by insurgents in Muslim southern Thailand.
"I condemn this inhumane murder, whoever the perpetrators are and whatever their motives," the president was quoted as saying by Detikcom online news service.
Another teenage student girl was wounded in the attack, said national police spokesman Ariyanto Budiarjo.
But the girl, who was hacked in her upper chest, told police the killings were carried out by six men clad in black and wearing face masks.
Police earlier detained eight men after they refused to have their car searched at a checkpoint, said Budiarjo, but he would not say whether those men were connected to the killings.